Wings of Life
Wings of Life (known as Pollen in France) and (known as Hidden Beauty: A Love Story That Feeds the Earth in the United Kingdom) is a 2011 French-American nature documentary film directed by Louis Schwartzberg and released by Disneynature.
It was released theatrically in France on 16 March 2011, with narration by Mélanie Laurent, and in home media markets across the US on 16 April 2013, with narration by Meryl Streep.
Wings of Life 🦋
Directed by
Louis Schwartzberg
Narrated by
Mélanie Laurent (France)
Meryl Streep (United States)
Disneynature
A beautiful
love story in
danger.
Our future
depends on
an amazing
love story
between the
flowers and fauna
consisting of bees, 🐝
butterflies 🦋 , 🐦 birds
and bats ,
which allow
these species
to reproduce.
Delicate and graceful,
the flowers 💐 are
not content to be
the ultimate symbol
of beauty.
On the contrary,
their vibrant colors
and their exotic
flavors are
so many wonders
that attract
pollinators and
drunk with desire.
All these
small creatures
are involved
in a complex
dance of seduction
on which
one third of
our crops,
a dance without
which we
could not
survive ...
Pollen presents
the unsung heroes
of the global
food chain.
Their fantastic
worlds are
full of stories,
drama and beauty.
While a fragile
and threatened,
essential for
the balance
of the planet,
it should
now
actively protect ...
Watch YouTube 1
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YouTube 2 here
YouTube 3 here
It's a special day ...
YouTube 4 here
YouTube 5 here
The beauty of pollination ... hummingbirds..butterflies...bees
YouTube 6 here
It's me , an orchid and I'm one of the most cunning of all flowers. My perfume is a trick. The orchid bee depends on me for help with his central mission in life to mate with a female bee . For weeks, he collects scent oils from orchids. Eventually, he uses his mix of fragrances as a kind of orchid cologne to attract a female bee. The scents come from me, a bucket orchid. (Image here) The bucket is part of my trick. The bee has to climb a waxy slope to reach the scent oils cleverly hidden. He fell into the bucket. I've filled my bucket with a sticky fluid that makes the bee sink. I provide only one escape route, which leads him just where I want it to be. After the bee climbs out, I grip him tightly, glue two pollen sacs to his back. Each sac filled with tens of thousands of pollen grains. These are the only pollen sacs I will ever produce, so I won't let him go until the glue is dry. I may wait an hour or more before loosening my grip. As he takes off, this one bee now carries my legacy. When he comes upon the scent of another orchid that same day, he heads right for it. If he slips into the bucket of this second orchid,
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